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Linkages Project

Mission statement:

LINKAGES is a USAID-funded program providing technical information, assistance, and training to organizations on breastfeeding, related complementary feeding and maternal dietary practices, and the lactational amenorrhea method - a modern postpartum method of contraception for women who breastfeed. LINKAGES is managed by the Academy for Educational Development to increase the practice of breastfeeding and related practices as a means toward: Increased child survival, growth and development; Increased child spacing; Improved maternal, reproductive health; and Reduced HIV transmission through informed decision-making on optimal infant feeding.

Contact Information:

Linkages Project
Academy for Educational Development, 1825 Connecticut Ave, NW
Washington DC 20009

Internet address: http://www.linkagesproject.org/

Phone number(s):

(202) 884-8000

Fax number:

(202) 884-8977

Related topics:

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• BREASTFEEDING
• INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

NWHIC record number O-3829